
That brought me to Los Angeles, and that led to signing with a really fantastic agent, and that led to the ‘Little House’ interviews. “I was a nobody from nowhere who got this chance and it just worked out.
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I really started chasing it professionally after my freshman year in college,” he said.Īfter doing commercials, Dean had the opportunity to be in a CBS TV movie-of-the-week called “Forever.” It was from that time, probably my sophomore year in high school, that I really got interested in acting. You see an actor like him, who just commands the stage, and it turns on the light of inspiration.


He was my inspiration for this and was just not someone that the public knew, but he was just such a consummate actor. I watched a young man named Warren Kelly light up the stage playing Henry Higgins in ‘My Fair Lady.’ I watched that and just said, ‘I have to do that.’ What’s sort of sad about this story is Warren just recently passed, like last week, of a very rare form of brain cancer. “The young man who was really my inspiration to try acting was someone who, in high school, was three years older than I was.

Being cast as the future love interest for “America’s sweetheart” on one of the most popular shows on TV would be a daunting task for any actor, but that’s exactly what happened to Dean Butler when he was cast as Almanzo Wilder for NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie.”ĭean’s path to acting wasn’t a clear choice to begin with.
